Visual Designer

Northern Trust’s Asset Management business is seeking a Visual Designer to join its Digital Marketing Team. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Visual/Interaction Design, UX and creating high quality PowerPoint presentations. The candidate must be a visual thinker who can present complex concepts in clear, compelling ways and have a shared belief that design is as much about behavior and emotion as it is about utility and ease of use.

Key Responsibilities

Create compelling and brand compliant designs for a range of projects and presentations. This includes design of microsites, landing pages, email templates, presentation decks, flip books, brochures and reports.

4+ years of experience creating user-centered design across web, print, apps and email.

Expert Level PowerPoint authoring and editing skills (design, advance formatting and animation) in current version and experience in last two versions of PowerPoint.

Understands technical aspects of presentation development. This includes creating templates, use of master templates, color themes, animations, diagrams, and working with a wide variety of file formats, optimizing media and creating presentations for use across a broad range of delivery platforms (print, web, mobile).

An online portfolio that demonstrates sophisticated design work in digital and print.

An in-depth understanding of modern design principles, responsive layouts and web best practices.

Experience using enterprise level content management systems to manage web pages. This includes updating content, images and assets on a website.

Experience with Ion Interactive or similar tools to help bring designs to life.

Video editing experience a plus

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 18,500 employees globally. We serve the world’s most-sophisticated clients – from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.

We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.

Reasonable Accommodation
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It is the policy and practice of Northern Trust to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Northern Trust does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or age. All employment decisions will be made in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our obligations under the law and codes of practice. This includes human resources’ decisions relating to recruitment, terms and conditions of employment, transfers, promotions and access to learning and development.